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  • Too Critical to Fail

    How Canada Manages Threats to Critical Infrastructure

    by Ben Bisset, Bryan Mills, Kevin Quigley ...
    In the summer of 2013, just as a small town in Quebec was decimated due to a train derailment, heavy rainfall prompted thirty Alberta communities to declare a state of emergency. Whereas a SWAT team surrounded train conductor Thomas Harding and brought him to court where he was charged with the deaths of forty-seven in Quebec, Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi emerged from the Alberta crisis as a folk ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

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  • Business Process Management

    Concepts, Languages, Architectures

    by Mathias Weske ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    Business process management is usually treated from two different perspectives: business administration and computer science. While business administration professionals tend to consider information technology as a subordinate aspect in business process management for experts to handle, by contrast computer science professionals often consider business goals and organizational regulations as terms ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • The Politics of Public–Private Partnerships in Western Europe

    Comparative Perspectives

    by Thomas Krumm ...
    This comprehensive book provides a unique comparative policy analysis of public-private partnerships (PPPs) in 14 Western European countries - from Scandinavia to Greece - bringing together important insights from government and politics as well as economics and institutional analysis.Thomas Krumm focuses on political drivers for policy change in favour of PPPs, and the supportive and limiting ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Guidance Note

    Electricity Sector Risk Assessment

    by Asian Development Bank ...
    Series series Guidance Note
    The electricity sector is vulnerable to a broad range of risks that can threaten development effectiveness. Risks can spring from the magnitude of the sector's capital investments, opportunities for discretionary decision making and rent seeking by stakeholders, weak policy and regulatory frameworks, capacity weaknesses of sector entities, and inefficient systems. Governance risk vulnerabilities ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Public-Private Partnerships and Canada's Public Health Care System

    by Heather Whiteside ...
    Series series Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy
    Since the start of the twenty-first century, Canadian provinces have increasingly begun turning to the private sector to finance and construct large-scale infrastructure projects. From a critical public policy perspective, the danger of these public-private partnerships (P3s) is that they are more than just new ways to deliver public infrastructure. They are neoliberal projects that privatize and ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Building Service-oriented Government: Lessons, Challenges And Prospects

    by Wei Wu ...
    Series Book 1 - Ncpa Research Series
    Providing quality public service is one of the essential functions of a government. In the turbulent time, however, governments worldwide are experiencing a variety of unprecedented challenges to meet citizens' increasing demands and expectations. In China, building a service-oriented government and a harmonious society is central to the 12th Five-Year Plan and challenges the governance ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • New Challenges in Energy Security

    The UK in a Multipolar World

    Edited by C. Mitchell, J. Watson, J. Whiting ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Researchers and practitioners explore the effect of evolving global economic and political powers on energy security within the UK and puts forward practical options for moving towards a more energy secure system over both the short and long terms. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Policy Process in International Environmental Governance

    by S. Aggarwal-Khan ...
    This book questions the practices in the policy processes of international institutions. It looks at the formal and informal practices that are routinely undertaken as part of the structure of international policy processes, and analyses how people behave and with what outcome for international environmental governance. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Multimodal Interactive Pattern Recognition and Applications

    by Alejandro Héctor Toselli, Enrique Vidal, Francisco Casacuberta ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This book presents a different approach to pattern recognition (PR) systems, in which users of a system are involved during the recognition process. This can help to avoid later errors and reduce the costs associated with post-processing. The book also examines a range of advanced multimodal interactions between the machine and the users, including handwriting, speech and gestures. Features: ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Poverty and Well-Being in East Africa

    A Multi-faceted Economic Approach

    Edited by Almas Heshmati ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This volume is a collection of selected studies on poverty and well-being in East Africa. Using a multidimensional approach, the authors hope to provide a broad view of poverty and a thorough account of the variables that contribute to it. As opposed to traditional studies of poverty, which focus mainly on material well-being, this volume includes criteria such as material standard of living, ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Reflections on Public Administration

    by John Merriman Gaus ...
    “In this classic, Gaus writes perceptively of the ‘ecology’ of public administration and its relationship to the rise of the administrative state. He recounts how crises and changes in people, place, physical technology, social technology, and philosophy in the first half of the 20th century led citizens repeatedly to look to government for relief. Politicians, in turn, created or expanded the ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Henry Morgenthau, Jr.

    The Remarkable Life of FDR's Secretary of the Treasury

    by Herbert Levy ...
    A fascinating exploration of early to mid-twentieth-century politics as seen through the eyes of a Roosevelt technocrat.History seems to repeat itself. With ongoing wars abroad and the collapse of financial institutions at home, Americans rely on President Barack Obama and Secretary of the Treasury Jacob Lew to bring about positive change. When the US stock market collapsed in 1928 and World War ... Read more

    $16.99 USD